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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this whole "I have a right to state my opinion without your input" thing is way off-base.

A chat forum is about LISTENING to each other. Not about hurling insults and ducking for cover. Good grief.

Better would be a standard of civil discussion, based on, you know, promoting *listening* to each other.
-- Someone may think/believe you're going to hell, but what earthly purpose does it serve to tell a non-believer that?
-- Someone may think faith is "stupid" but be mature enough to withhold that opinion because they know it just shuts down conversation.

Now if the whole purpose of this forum is to shout insults and duck for cover, then it's a waste of time and cyberspace. Unfortunately that seems to be exactly what the unhinged atheist thinks. [/quote]

PS. I should add that "opinion" is so easily a cover for insults.

Case in point: Unhinged Atheist is arguing that her "opinion" is that faith is stupid and believers are stupider, so she's justified repeating this ad nauseum here. Even though, clearly, she has no purpose besides shutting down threads and getting up peoples' noses.

Which another reason why the test of "it's my opinion" fails. Not only do (1) adults realize sometimes their opinions don't contribute to discussions and can instead derail them, but (2) "it's my opinion" is a Trojan horse for the trolls here.

What to do instead? There seems to be general agreement here that belief/disbelief are not choices (contrary to the "conformist" posters on both sides). So treat people here like you'd treat anybody else who can't help being what they are. Do you insult your friend's short haircut if she can't grow it out tomorrow? Worse, do you you insult the person in the wheelchair? Oh wait. All of us knew that. Yet unhinged atheist and smug evangelical are incapable of doing it when religion is involved.
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